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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1892

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St. Andrew's Band-hope

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 3

THE first anniversary of the above [?] on Tuesday evening last in the schoo[?] St. Andrew's Church. The Rev. [?] Gordon occupied the chair, and during [?]…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "Queen's Evidence."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 5

LAST night the final performance of "Queen's Evidence" was given to a large audience at the Victoria Theatre, who watched the production with keen interest…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "Current Cash."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 5

THE Barry Dramatic Company produced the sensational drama "Current Cash" in the Victoria Theatre last evening, There was a very fair attendance, and judging from the…

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Disastrous Fire at a Philadelphia Theatre. Six Performers Killed and Seventy Persons Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thursday—Intelligence of a most appalling catastrophe has reached here from Philadelphia. During the progress of a performance at the Central Theatre of that…

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Musical Union Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 8

THE members of the Newcastle Musical Union gave their sixth concert in the New Masonic Hall, Perkin-street, last evening, and the entertainment was the most…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "Current Cash."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 5

THE Dan Barry Dramatic Company produced the popular drama " Current Cash" at the Victoria Theatre again last night with even more successful results than on the…

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Burning of a Philadelphia Theatre. Sixty Persons Severely Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday.—Further particulars from Philadelphia state that 60 persons were badly injured in the terrific crush to escape from the burning theatre or…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "Current Cash."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1892 · page 5

A LARGE audience was present at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday evening to witness the last performance of "Current Cash" by the Barry Dramatic Company. The play is…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. Madam Midas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1892 · page 5

THE dramatisation of Fergus Hume's well-known and popular Australian novel "Madam Midas "was staged at the Victoria Theatre for the first time last evening by…

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Merewether. CONCERT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1892 · page 7

The concert to be given to-night (Tuesday) by Bray's Minstrel Company in the Mechanics' institute, in aid of St. Joseph's Church, Burwood, promises to be a grand…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. Madam Midas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1892 · page 4

THE Barry Dramatic Company presented the sensational and engaging drama "Madam Midas" to a Newcastle audience for the second time last evening, and the…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1892 · page 5

THE sensational Australian drama "Madam Midas" was played for the last time at the Victoria Theatre last night. A fairly large audience was present, and, taking the…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "Cast Adrift."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1892 · page 5

ONE of the latest London crazes in the sensational drama " Cast Adrift" was produced at the Victoria Theatre, by the Barry Dramatic Company, last evening, with the…

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Distressed Members of the 4th Regiment Band

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1892 · page 5

OWING to the slackness of work in the mining districts of Burwood, Glebe, and Merewether some of the members of the 4th Regiment Band, whose occupation is that of…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "Cast Adrift."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1892 · page 5

THE success that was achieved with the sensational drama "Cast Adrift" at the Victoria Theatre on the occasion of its first production on Thursday night, was more…

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4th Regiment Band

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 May 1892 · page 5

THE members of the 4th Regiment Hand gave a number of selections of music in the Islington Reserve yesterday afternoon for the purpose of collecting funds towards…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 May 1892 · page 5

"CAST ADHIFT" was played at the Victoria Theatre for the last time on Saturday evening, and to-night a version of Marcus Clarke's novel, "For the Term of His Natural Life," will be…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "His Natural Life."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 May 1892 · page 5

THE Barry Dramatic Company produced an adaptation of Marcuse Clarke's famous work His is Natural Life," in the Victoria Theatre last evening. The theatre was filled in every…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "His Natural Life."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1892 · page 5

THIS highly sensational drama was produced by the Dan Barry Dramatic Company at the Victoria Theatre again last evening to a crowded house, and met with the heartiest…

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Amusements. Victoria Theatre. "His Natural Life."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1892 · page 5

THE third production of this wonderfully sensational and deeply interesting drama by Dan Barry's talented company was an unqualified success last evening, and the…

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